After the three of them left, Wang Zezhi ordered someone to call Wang Shan.

Sweet potatoes and peppers, also known as sweet potatoes and peppers, are ready to start seedlings.

10,000 stone sweet potatoes, every 100 catties can raise seedlings used in one acre of land.

One stone in the Ming Dynasty was equal to 158.2 city catties, and one city jin in the Ming Dynasty was equal to 1.1936 jin now, that is to say, in the Ming Dynasty, one stone was equal to 188.8 jin now.

In this way, the sweet potatoes brought back by Wang Shan are only enough to plant more than 10,000 acres of land.

All the sweet potatoes and peppers combined, are not enough for Wang Ze.

The preliminary estimate is that more than 14,000 hectares of land have been recovered from the 74 families, and on average more than 200 hectares have been encroached upon by one gentry.

One hectare is equal to 100 acres, which is more than 1 million acres of land.

When Wang Zezhi heard this number, he gasped.

Although he knew that these people liked to encroach on the annexed land, he was still surprised that the seventy-four gentry had encroached on so many fields.

With so many fields, how many people will be displaced.

The value of these people's kills.

In addition, a large number of fields have been added to the areas outside Datong Pass and Hetao.

If all these fields were planted with crops, the amount of seeds needed would be astronomical.

For a while, he couldn't buy so many sweet potato seedlings and pepper seeds.

There was no choice but to first set aside more than 10,000 acres of high-quality fields in Datong Mansion as experimental fields and plant sweet potatoes and peppers.

This more than 10,000 acres of land grows sweet potatoes, even if one mu produces 2,000 catties of sweet potatoes, all of them add up to more than 20 million catties.

When the time comes, with this batch of sweet potatoes, more land will be planted by next year.

As for the rest of the land, we can only grow some native crops and vegetables first.

Wang Zezhi thought about it carefully, and he felt that Wang Shan had to go to the south again and buy a large number of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

In addition, Wang Zezhi suddenly remembered that Wang Shan didn't seem to have explained the matter of corn to him.

Wang Zezhi has experienced too many things in a year, and he forgot about the corn for a while.

Spring corn can usually be planted in April, and if a large amount of corn seeds can be bought, he can plant them in the fields recovered from Datong Province in April.

The main reason why Wang Zezhi is so anxious to grow sweet potatoes and corn is that the yield of this thing is high.

For example, the corn, buckwheat, and wheat planted by the people of Shanxi now have a yield of only more than 200 catties per mu, not even 300 catties.

The reason why the yield of these crops is so low is not only because of the variety of crops, but also whether the fields are fertile, whether the people have applied fertilizer, and whether the fields are near the water source.

However, the most important thing is to look at the variety of crops.

During the Ming Dynasty, the varieties of wheat were not as good as they are now.

The reason why there is such a high yield now is thanks to Mr. Yuan.

It's a pity that there was no old man Yuan in the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Zezhi could only find substitutes for wheat, buckwheat, sorghum and other crops, potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn.

Chili peppers can't be used as a staple food, but it's a good side dish, and when there aren't enough vegetables to eat, making a bowl of spicy peppers is still very good for rice.

Therefore, Wang Zezhi also needs to plant peppers.

Wang Zezhi has more fields in his hands, but there are not enough cattle.

Even if the Cowherd sent him thousands of ploughing cattle, Wang Zezhi was still too little.

At least 10,000 cows are needed.

He didn't have enough cattle in his hand, so the cowherd went to Nanzhili to buy horses again.

He could only put down the mules, donkeys, and low-quality war horses that pulled carts in his hands, and used them to cultivate the land first.

As for the farming tools, last year, he ordered two rounds of casting, and a small rub of people specially built, this problem is not big.

Farming cattle, farming tools, and seeds are all easy to talk about, but the trouble is the issue of land distribution.

Originally, Wang Zezhi wanted to distribute these fields to the people in his hands, but he thought about it carefully. Colorful Chinese

The fields in the hands of the sergeants were all obtained with their lives, and they were exchanged for military merits.

If he continues to divide it like this, I am afraid that it will make the people unhappy.

After thinking about it, Wang Zezhi was ready to recruit a construction corps.

This corps doesn't have to fight, they just need to do the construction work.

At present, they need to do water conservancy, reclaim wasteland, build roads, and repair some forts, fire road piers, and city walls.

These people certainly cannot be selected from among the sergeants, not even those of military merit.

For these soldiers are for war.

Fortunately, the guerrilla battalion had been completed, and the workers there had nothing to do, and during the conquest of Omubu, they were all transferred to the outside of the fortress to transport grain and grass and make fortifications.

At present, all of them are gathered in the area of Killing Tiger's Mouth, where they are waiting for Wang Zezhi's arrangement.

These people do things quickly, they have taken Wang Zezhi's wages, and they also know that Wang Zezhi is generous, and they do not deduct their wages, and they are easy to use.

In addition to these people, Wang Zezhi also planned to recruit some displaced people and the people of Datong Mansion into the Construction Corps.

Especially the people in Datong Mansion, although it shows that officials were corrupt and natural disasters continued during the dynasty, there are still hundreds of thousands of people in Datong Mansion.

As for how many hundreds of thousands there are, it is not for Wang Zezhi to know.

Although there are more than 800,000 people recorded in the household registration book of Datong Prefecture, Wang Zezhi feels that 800,000 is definitely not there, and 400,000 is definitely there.

With so many people, he only needs to recruit tens of thousands of people to cultivate the confiscated fields in Datong Mansion.

In addition, some people have also done water conservancy, reclaiming wasteland, repairing cities, and building roads.

The plan of the year lies in the spring, and Wang Zezhi has fought repeatedly, and it is time to recuperate.

The most important thing to recuperate is food.

Last year, when Wang Zezhi planted buckwheat in Shouyang, Fangshan, and Yuxian, he used manure and plant ash to improve the fertility of the land.

These fertilizer-based lands grow well, and the most buckwheat produced is more than 300 catties, but the average is more than 200 catties.

Those who did not use fertilizer had low yields.

The highest output was less than one stone, only more than 160 catties, and the least was only 50 catties.

This is also the reason why Wang Zezhi must plant potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn.

With such a low yield, let alone 20 acres, even 30 acres may not be enough for the people to eat.

Since the buckwheat was harvested, Wang Zezhi ordered his sergeants to collect human dung and mix it with plant ash to make simple fertilizer.

Of course, in addition to human dung, the dung of horses, mules and ploughing cattle also had to be collected.

Wang Zezhi found that buckwheat grew better and yielded more on the land where horse manure and cow dung were used, probably because horses and mules and cattle graze.

Up to now, from the Fangshan guerrilla camp to the Datongfu camp, and then to the defenders everywhere, special dry toilets have been built to collect feces.

Wang Shan was measuring the land in the area of Tuoketuo, and after receiving the order, he rushed back as soon as possible.

By the time he arrived at Qu Yechuan, it was already dark.

Wang Zezhi looked at his dusty appearance, and directly ordered someone to make a table of good dishes, and chatted with him while eating.

In the process of chatting, Wang Zezhi knew.

Wang Shan did not forget about the corn stubble, but said that corn is available in Beizhili.

As long as you pass the lady's pass, you need as much as you want.

It turned out that corn was a tribute to the Ming Dynasty by the people of Waifan, called West Passionwheat, and its main role was to be used as horse feed.

Wang Zezhi couldn't help but be speechless, it was a waste to use such good grain as horse feed.

Wang Zezhi ordered Wang Shan to send a person to Beizhili to buy a 100,000 stone of corn seeds, and then bring back hundreds of old farmers who could grow corn.

In April, Wang Zezhi wanted to plant corn in the fields of Datong Mansion.

Wang Shan thought that Wang Zezhi wanted to reserve horse feed, and if he didn't eat any meals, he would go down immediately to make arrangements.

Wang Zezhi pulled him back to the wine table and said that he was tired from running all the way and would do it tomorrow.

Then, he told Wang Shan about some of his plans one by one.